Description

SK 7935 REDMILE MAIN STREET (North side)

47/314 Church of St Peter 1.1.68

GV II*

Parish church. Nave and south aisle c. 1300, C14 west tower and chancel. Some remodelling C15. Ironstone with limestone dressings. Lead roofs to nave and aisle, slate to chancel and north transept. 3 stage tower with blocked round-arched west doorway below 3-light C19 Perpendicular window. Slit lights to ringing chamber and 2-light belfry windows. Diagonal buttresses rise to crenellated parapet, above which is octagonal crocketed spire. One tier gabled lucarnes with 2-light tracery. Gabled south porch and 2-light south aisle windows. Large brick buttresses to north side of nave. No nave windows below clerestory on this side. 3 C15 2-light clerestory windows beneath triangular heads. 2 2-light south chancel windows of trefoil pattern, doubtless C19. 3-light chancel east window and 2-light chancel north window. West of this a gabled C19 brick vestry. Interior. 4 bay arcade on alternately circular and octagonal piers. Double chamfered arches. Tall tower arch with circular responds with polygonal bases and capitals. 5 bay C15 nave roof of canted tie beams with arched braces dropping to wall posts on corbels. Ridge piece and one pair butt purlins. Ties remain to aisle roof, otherwise this roof of 1980s. C15 octagonal font with petal and tracery patterns to stem and bowl. Cl9 chancel roof of ties, collars, 2 tiers butt purlins and curved windbracing. 5 late C15 benches remain in chancel with poppyheads.

Listing NGR: SK7971335528

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)